LENIN.---- LETTERS TO A. SHLYAPNIKOV.

P. S. How did Kollontai react to the "document" and the recent 
(80—86 and following) issues No. 5 of "Golos"?
P. S. I have just read that the Conference will be on 17/1 and that 
the Swiss party has refused. 
I think, if that is the case, it is 
b e t t e r  n o t  t o  p a r t i c i p a t e  a t  a l l .
P. P. S. 
Kautsky in "Labour Leader"2) advocates 
t h e  s l o g a n  
o f  p e a c e .  Here is my answer to comrade Kollontai! 
Can she 
r e a l l y  n o w  b e  i n  f a v o r  o f  t h i s  s l o g a n ??
I Postscript by N. K. Krupskaya.]
We have ordered for you a new brochure by Plekhanov 3), which came 
out in Paris; as soon as we receive it, we shall send it to you at once.
*) See note 2 to letter 8.
2) "Labour Leader"—organ of the English Independent Labour Party.
3) "A Letter to a Bulgarian Socialist on War" was reprinted in Russia 
in "Sovremennyi Mir," book 1, 1915, and was included in Plekhanov's brochure "On War."